As soon as he finished speaking, the whistling sound in the air and the sound of the rising and falling arms of trebuchets in the distance gradually disappeared, and when those bottles and altars hit the wooden rafts or hit the ground The sound of shattering could no longer be heard. Fu Hongzhi gritted his teeth and jumped out from under the car, shouting loudly: "Run now."
He didn't even take the bow and arrow in his hand, and just ran forward with his bare hands at a sprint speed of 100 meters.
Yao Shufu followed closely behind him, running wildly: "Brother Hongzhi, wait for me."
The more than fifty sergeants scattered under the carts in various square formations also jumped up and flew forward as if they were launching a 100-meter flying competition. Some of them were even already behind the carts. They immediately took off their armor, put on only a helmet, and started running in single clothes. They only regretted that their parents didn't give them two more legs to make them run faster.
In only about a minute, these people ran about 200 steps. After they ran this distance, they heard a huge explosion from behind. Fu Hongzhi instinctively turned his head and looked back. I saw that the area around the carts and rafts that had been crouched just now had turned into a sea of fire. The flying broken branches were constantly coming out of the fire, just like in front of the fire. On the top of the branches, there were blazing flames. Fire, obviously, the tips of these flying rockets were also smeared with kerosene and sulfur, turning them into large rockets. The kerosene and saltpeter that were hit by trebuchets before were broken to pieces and spread all over the front line of the car array. , it is the combination with these fires that constitutes the reason for this soaring fire array.
The air seemed to be burning, and there were constant sounds of explosions. Wherever the fire oil flowed, it ignited all the wooden objects and grass, and the scorching waves of air hit your face, as if you were sitting next to a fire. , if it hadn’t been for the desperate two hundred steps to reach this relatively safe distance, I’m afraid everyone would have become charcoal in the fire.
Every sergeant who had narrowly escaped death changed his face and looked at everything behind him silently. Yao Shufu stuck out his tongue: "Damn Xuan Na, if he hadn't run so fast, even if he had been wiped all over his body, Mud, even if the carts and rafts outside are covered with mud, they can't stop the fire. All of us will become roast chickens."
Fu Hongzhi patted his chest: "Yes, if Brother Daogui hadn't discovered this, and if you hadn't come to inform us, none of the one or two thousand soldiers in our car formation would have been spared. However, there is no guarantee here yet. To be safe, the enemy may extend the fire further, so we have to retreat another hundred steps to the center and re-arrange our formation."
Tan Shihuai's voice sounded from behind them: "Brother Hongzhi, brother Hongzhi, we are here."
Fu Hongzhi's heart moved and he looked forward. He saw hundreds of figures rushing out from the smoke. The leader was Tan Shihuai, followed by Luo Shangwen and Captain Axiba. Fu Hongzhi smiled. He got up, stepped forward and patted Tan Shihuai on the shoulder: "Good boy, you are still alive. How is brother A Zhi."
Tan Shihuai smiled and waved the token in his hand to Fu Hongzhi: "My lord is doing well now. He is fighting and retreating with his heavy-armored halberds. He is worried about the situation in this formation. He wants me to lead him as soon as possible." Someone came to meet him. He was afraid that the demon thieves would take advantage of the north wind to attack and asked me to give an order to abandon the seven phalanxes on the north side and move to the center. I took Captain Asiba's Dongman brothers and Colonel Luo with them. The archery team came here to do this."
Fu Hongzhi nodded and pointed at Yao Shufu: "If Brother Zhengxi Daogui hadn't also seen this and asked Shufu to bring troops and horses to support, and Shufu came to inform me first, I'm afraid that our entire army would They have already perished in the sea of fire. Alas, I can’t accept it. After all, Brother A Zhi and Brother Dao Gui are talented generals, much better than me."
Captain Asiba nodded: "This fire attack is too scary. However, I think all the kerosene jars owned by the demon thieves are probably used up. It is unlikely that they will pass through the fire scene now. We still have time to queue up." Formation, rearrange defenses."
Luo Shangwen laughed: "That's right, when we came here just now, we saw Pei Fangming and the others. They said they had retreated under your order. Now they have arrived in the ten square formations in the center. They are talking with the others right now. Liu Zhendao, who has retracted from the south side, is rearranging his formation."
Tan Shihuai rushed to say: "Also, there are more than a thousand brothers from the Chinese army, bringing dozens of trucks of large buckets of river mud, and they are smearing it on the wooden rafts of the square array in the center. Oh, that stinks He's dead, but in order to survive, he has to wipe it on. We didn't have time to wipe it on because we were rushing for time, but now, seeing that you are safe, we are relieved."
Fu Hongzhi said sternly: "In that case, let's go back. This time we narrowly escaped death. However, more than two hundred large vehicles are gone. We can no longer carry out the chariot assault like just now. It's quite good." What a pity, where is the cavalry now?"
Tan Shihuai said: "Brother Daogui has an order to return the cavalry to the central square. He has other arrangements. Brother Shufu has come over with a thousand heavy infantry to exchange for the cavalry. Now our front army plus the lord There should be four to five thousand men brought back, enough to hold the line."
Fu Hongzhi's eyes flashed coldly: "Very good, then let's abandon the phalanx on the north and south wings, retreat to the center, and shorten the width of the front. I want to see how much strength these demon thieves who set fire have. Attack us!"
At the same time, on the north side of the former army, outside the fire scene.
In the military formation of Tianshi Dao, there were bursts of cheers, and many disciples of Tianshi Dao could not restrain their ecstasy and began to dance, as if they were at a heaven-human mating conference. Celebrating sacrifices. Indeed, seeing the seven phalanxes that were indestructible and fortress-like just now, have now turned into a sea of fire. Imagine that the thousands of Jin troops in this formation have all turned into charred corpses. Victory is in front of you, and there is still more. Is this something more joyful?
He Tianping also had a smile on his face: "This kerosene jar combined with the huoshan is so powerful that Jin Gou never imagined that this big car formation would actually become their death place. It can be regarded as a gift to us just now." The brothers who were killed by chariots have been avenged.”
With tears streaming down Zhang Zhuer's face, he gritted his teeth and said, "Brother, I can finally rest in peace. Senior Brother Li will avenge you."
Li Nanfeng's brows were furrowed and he said nothing.
He Tianping was a little surprised and looked at Li Nanfeng: "Senior Brother Li, is there anything wrong?"
Li Nanfeng murmured: "How come I didn't smell the smell of burnt corpses, and I didn't see the Jin army running around on fire."
(End of chapter)
